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APC group cautions Tinubu on appointments

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3 years ago

19 July 2023

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A Bauchi-based All Progressives Congress, APC, support group, Alhilal Initiative Forum, Malam has cautioned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu against making wrong choice of political appointees.

Chairman of the APC support group, Usman Gokaru, gave the warning in a statement made available to newsmen in Bauchi on Wednesday, against appointing those who.live mainly in Abuja, while crippling the party at state levels “as witnessed in Bauchi and other states in the eight years of the immediate past administration”

Gokaru whose forum had been organising prayer sessions for the success of, APC, attributed the dwindling fortunes of the APC to the anti-party activities of public officers appointed to represent Bauchi state at the federal level.

“We are living witnesses that the former president appointed people that refused to be involved in the activities of the APC”, Gokaru said.

He therefore urged the president to appoint people of integrity who have not lost touch with their states.

” With the right people around him, President Tinubu is assured implementing the APC manifesto and his campaign promises”, Gokaru said.

The Chairman, therefore, the president to nominate the former governor of Bauchi state, Malam Isa Yuguda for ministerial appointment, as “the only party leader that is capable of uniting the party”.

” Malam Isa Yiguda is the only party leader in Bauchi state that can bring everybody on board if given the right empowerment to galvanise the party ” he added.

The Chairman further explained that the Forum is also praying for the “recovery of mandate of the gubernatorial candidate of APC, Air Marshal Sadique Baba Abubakar. With Yuguda as minister and Sadique as governor, Bauchi will be a shining example of good governance”.

Alhilal Initiative Forum is one of the organisations that contributed to the emergence of Malam Isa Yuguda as governor of Bauchi state in 2007, and his subsequent reelection.

The Forum is engaged in charity activities especially to widows, orphans and vulnerable children, religious organisations as well as promoting peaceful coexistence among different religious and ethnic groups.